When Yue Weihan heard this, he immediately became interested and said anxiously: "Please give me some advice, Mr. Rong."
"I don't think you should take advice seriously." Mr. Rong Desheng waved his hand and said, "What I want to say is, why don't we raise food from Siam, Burma, India and Australia through buying and selling?"
"Buying and reselling?" Mr. Zhuang Xiyan was stunned when he heard this and did not react for a moment.
"Yes, buying and selling." Mr. Rong Desheng said, "Actually, it's just speculation."
"Speculation?" Yue Weihan came to his senses. The so-called speculation was actually futures speculation.
Mr. Rong Desheng continued to explain: "The specific operation is also very simple. First, advance a large amount of funds, quietly purchase the surplus grain in the Myanmar market through various channels, and when the purchase is almost complete, Professor Zhu's research results will be announced.
To the public, it will trigger a panic buying in the grain market and drive up grain prices."
"When grain prices are at a very high level, grain merchants from the United States, Britain, France, and even Japan will definitely transport grain to Myanmar from countries such as Australia, India, and Siam to make huge profits. At this time, we will release a large amount of the grain stocks we purchased in the early stage.
Firstly, a large amount of funds can be withdrawn, and secondly, food prices can be pushed back to low levels."
"At this time, most of the urgently transported grains by grain dealers from various countries have been shipped to Myanmar, but grain prices have fallen to lows. If they are unwilling to sell them at low prices, the grains will rot in their hands and they will have to transport them back to the place where they came from.
Add another freight charge, and if nothing else happens, they will have to deal with it at a low price, and then we can purchase large quantities at a very low price."
"As long as we operate it well, the price difference between our low-priced and high-priced sales will be enough to pay for all the grain purchases. However, this has to have a prerequisite, that is, we have to prepare a large amount of funds in the early stage. If we don't have enough funds, I'm afraid we won't be able to eat it.
It’s difficult to raise the price of grain stored in the Myanmar market.”
"Funding is not a problem." Yue Weihan said, "Don't you still have 400 million US dollars in Nanyang Bank?"
"But that 400 million US dollars is the scientific research and education funds of Nanyang United University?" Mr. Rong Desheng said slightly, "Although the idea I came up with is very practical, it is still risky."
"I believe Mr. Rong, this matter can be done." Yue Weihan seemed quite confident.
Yue Weihan's determination is not unreasonable, because today's capitalist countries advocate an absolute market economy, and the government will never intervene in the market. In fact, administrative intervention in the market is a product of socialist countries, that is, secular
In the so-called planned economy, it was only at the end of the twentieth century that Western countries slowly learned how to intervene in administration.
In other words, once Myanmar’s food prices rise, what Yue Weihan will face will definitely not be the US and British governments, but only speculators from various countries. With the financial resources of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, can’t it still deal with a group of speculators? Others?
Not to mention, dropping the US$400 million from Nanyang Bank would definitely swallow up these speculators with their skin and bones!
"I propose to set up a special working group." Yue Weihan finally made the decision, "Mr. Rong will be the team leader, and Mr. Chen will be the deputy team leaders. During this period of time, you will temporarily put aside the work at hand.
Concentrate all your efforts on getting this matter done, everyone, I’ll leave it to you to provide food rations for the 20 million compatriots in the rear area next year!”
…………
A night of silence.
The next morning, Yue Weihan had just gotten up and was washing in the yard. Yuhu, the adjutant, suddenly walked in in a hurry and said to Yue Weihan: "Brother Yue, something happened."
Yue Weihan asked: "What happened?"
Yuhu said: "A British businessman had a conflict with a Chinese merchant in the morning market. After the quarrel, the two sides started fighting. The British businessman hired a few Western boxers to beat the Chinese merchant seriously. It happened that Gao Chu took him with him.
The special operations detachment passed by and knocked down those Western boxers on the spot, and they also dealt heavy blows, killing two and seriously injuring six!"
After saying this, Yuhu said again: "Now, the British in Yangon have made a fuss. Hundreds of British businessmen are gathering outside the headquarters to demand an explanation from the Chinese Expeditionary Force. The attendant camp of the headquarters
A three-layer cordon has been set up around the perimeter, but the British are very excited and the situation may get out of control at any time."
Yue Weihan's face immediately darkened and he said to Yuhu: "Prepare the car immediately and go to the headquarters."
When Yue Weihan arrived at the headquarters, Stilwell was suppressing the situation, and the old American man had shouted until his voice was almost hoarse.
Yue Weihan was not so easy to talk to. After giving the order, the waiting battalion immediately rushed forward and started arresting people. After a short resistance, more than two hundred British businessmen obeyed and were thrown into prison.
…………
In the office, Stilwell said to Yue Weihan worriedly: "Yue, what you do will intensify the conflict between China and Britain."
"Being indecisive and waiting for the situation to get out of control will intensify the conflict." Yue Weihan waved his hand and said, "As for now, the situation has calmed down. When the British personnel arrive, I will naturally release him. I understand that the British side has nothing to say. After all, this is
The thing is that they are in the wrong first, and at most the Chinese Expeditionary Force will pay them some funeral expenses and medical expenses."
"Alas." Stilwell sighed and suddenly said, "Yue, have you noticed that the military discipline of the expeditionary force seems to have deteriorated a lot, especially the officers and soldiers of the special operations division and the airborne division, who are self-reliant on their military exploits.
He often goes out to cause trouble, and the police and gendarmerie simply don't dare to take care of it, and they can't do anything about it. This is not going to work, as it will disturb the people."
Yue Weihan's heart suddenly sank when he heard this. In the past six months, he has been busy with Myanmar's industrial, agricultural and educational construction, and he has really thrown aside the training and style building of the army. The current Chinese Expeditionary Force has indeed had a serious epidemic.
It is no wonder that he is so arrogant and arrogant. After all, he fought many victorious battles and annihilated a large number of Japanese troops.
"Yue, I heard that the discipline of the Eighth Route Army is very good." Contrary to Yue Weihan's expectations, Stilwell suddenly said, "The reason why the discipline of the Eighth Route Army is good is entirely because they have established a political commissar system. It is now the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
, why don’t you make a request to the CCP and send some political commissars to clean up military discipline?”
"This..." Yue Weihan was overjoyed, but he hesitated, "Is it appropriate?"
"What's inappropriate?" Stilwell waved his hand and said seriously, "Ideology can't explain anything. As far as I know, the Yan'an Border Region Government is much more honest than the National Government in Chongqing. As long as the political commissar sent by the CCP
If you can help the expeditionary force improve military discipline, our U.S. government will definitely welcome it."
"Okay." Yue Weihan said happily, "That's it!"
…………
Yan'an, Wayaobao.
It’s New Year again in a blink of an eye, and the whole Yan’an is decorated with lanterns and colorful lights, and it’s full of joy.
Compared with the depression in the southwestern Kuomintang-controlled areas, the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region appears to be full of vitality. Although the Nationalist Government has not issued funds to the border region government and the Eighth Route Army for several years, this is not difficult for the CCP. Chairman Mao gave an order and the entire border region
They have all launched a vigorous self-birth self-rescue campaign. If nothing else, at least filling their stomachs is no longer a problem.
Amidst the crackling of firecrackers, Duke Zhou and Mr. Zhu walked into Chairman Mao’s cave house hand in hand.
"***, stop writing." Mr. Zhu took off his cotton coat and hung it on the wall. He sat down on the pit and said to Chairman Mao who was writing furiously, "Yan Laoxi is causing trouble again.
We sent a reinforced group to take a small road and bypass Niangziguan, hoping to sneak into the Taihang base area to fight the autumn wind, but in the end, Li Qinglong's security division made dumplings for them, haha."
Chairman Mao put down his writing brush and said with a smile: "It seems that Commander Yan is having a difficult year, haha."
Speaking of which, since the 39th Group Army's main expedition to Myanmar, the Taihang Mountain base area has been almost empty. Shanxi's Shanxi-Sui Army and the Central Army have often had the idea of attacking the Taihang Mountain base area. Hu Zongnan mobilized heavy troops to invade several times, but in the end he lost countless soldiers and generals.
Li Qinglong's security division gave away hundreds of thousands of reserve troops in vain.
Commander Yan also made several attempts, but in the end he was not much better than Hu Zongnan, and he also lost troops and generals.
In the final analysis, this is all caused by the arsenals and basic industries in the Taihang base area. Since the U.S. government drastically reduced aid to China, the Central Army and the Shanxi-Sui Army have completely lost their sources of weapons and ammunition.
They set up strongholds in the artillery towers to save some property, but the Central Army and the Shanxi-Sui Army retreated to the Kuomintang Army and had no place to fight against the autumn wind.
No, Commander Yan's Jinsui Army was attacked by the Japanese Army in Mongolia a few years ago. Not many cities were lost, but many troops and belongings were lost. Seeing that his family assets were getting smaller and smaller, how could Commander Yan
Not in a hurry? So he set his sights on the Taihang base area, but ended up doing a loss-making business.
Today's Chief Yan is really celebrating the New Year like Wang Xiaoer, and every year is worse than the last.
"Yan Laoxi doesn't care about him." Boss Zhu waved his hand and said with pride, "Now our Eighth Route Army has millions of soldiers, and its weapons and equipment have been changed one after another. In addition to no aircraft and heavy howitzers, more than 700
The firepower of this main force group is no longer inferior to that of the Japanese army. It is really a piece of cake to deal with the more than 200,000 Shanxi-Sui Army. With Yan Laoxi's noisy method, if not for the fact that it is the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party,
We, the Eighth Route Army, don’t want to do the unscrupulous act of killing relatives and hating enemies, so I have already ordered the Jinsui Army to be destroyed."
Chairman Mao lit a cigarette, smiled and said to Zhou Gong: "Thank you, our boss is now tough. In his eyes, Commander Yan's Jinsui Army is no longer a piece of cake, even Hata Shunroku's
The North China Front probably can’t be considered a big meal, at most it can only be regarded as an appetizer, haha.”
Duke Zhou waved his hand and said to Chairman Mao: "Chairman, Yue Weihan just sent a telegram from Burma, requesting the Party Central Committee to assign political commissars to all units above the regiment and above of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and to assign instructors to all units above the platoon. This is no small matter.
, and it involves a large number of political cadres, do you think it is appropriate?"
After listening to Duke Zhou's report, Chairman Mao's eyes immediately narrowed.
The expression on Mr. Zhu's face immediately became solemn. After being silent for a long time, he said softly: "***, I think this is feasible, and we must hurry up. Now the Chinese Expeditionary Force has millions of troops, and it is still
It has all kinds of beautiful weapons and equipment, and it also has millions of reserve soldiers. More importantly, Myanmar’s heavy industrial base has been built.”
After saying this, Mr. Zhu said again: "***, we cannot forget the lessons of the Fourth Front Army."
Back then, after the Central Red Army moved to Sichuan to join forces with the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army, Zhang Guotao, the commander-in-chief of the Fourth Front Army, came up with the idea of seizing power because the strength of the Fourth Front Army greatly exceeded that of the Central Red Army.
The establishment of the Central Committee caused great losses to the Red Army and the Chinese revolution!
Among them, Mr. Zhu, who had been kidnapped by Zhang Guotao, felt the deepest.
That's why Mr. Zhu said this. He was indeed worried that Yue Weihan would become the second Zhang Guotao.
Chairman Mao just smoked silently and did not express his position easily. Duke Zhou also considered and said: "I still trust Yue Weihan's political consciousness. If he was really the same kind of person as Zhang Guotao, he would not take the initiative to move closer to our party. However,
There are indeed some flaws in this comrade's life style, and someone should be sent to supervise him and remind him."
"Hey." Duke Zhou had finished speaking. Chairman Mao suddenly waved his hand and said disapprovingly, "As for Comrade Yue Weihan's life style, we should look at it in two parts. Yes, Comrade Yue Weihan has many beautiful women around him.
I heard that there are two foreign ladies, but after all, Yue Weihan is not married yet. As the saying goes, if the man is not married and the woman is not married, what kind of mistake can it be if they fall in love and fall in love?"
Duke Zhou and Mr. Zhu could only smile bitterly.
Regarding the issue of Yue Weihan's private life, if we really want to investigate it seriously, it's really not a mistake. Playing with women? It's out of the question. They are clearly in love with each other, so why should outsiders meddle in their own affairs? Bigamy? It's even more ridiculous.
If you have never been married, where does the crime of bigamy come from? Life is corrupted? Does falling in love and pursuing beautiful love also count as corrupting life?
Chairman Mao took a deep drag on his cigarette, then stubbed out the cigarette butts on the soles of his shoes, and said to Mr. Zhu and Zhou Gong: "Sending political cadres to Myanmar is feasible and necessary in principle. Comrade Yue Weihan's political quality and overall view are also necessary.
He is very strong, and I believe he is definitely not making superficial remarks. The key question is, under what name are the political cadres sent to be punished?"
At present, the Nationalist Government has declined, and Chairman Mao does not have many scruples, but the international repercussions must be considered.
"Oh, Yue Weihan has already thought about this problem for us." Zhou Gongdao, "Let's appoint it in the name of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party."
"In the name of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party?" Chairman Mao's heart suddenly moved when he heard this, and his eyes narrowed again habitually.
Speaking of which, this is already the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. However, relatively speaking, the first cooperation between the National Revolutionary Army during the Northern Expedition was the real cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. At that time, the status of Communist Party members within the Kuomintang
It's all public, and the Communists did indeed achieve many feats in the Northern Expedition. Among other things, Wuchang City was captured by Ye Ting's Independent Regiment.
However, the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War was only a formal cooperation. But in any case, it is now a period of second cooperation. As long as Yue Weihan is willing, it is really justifiable and logical for the CCP to send political cadres to Burma.
, Chairman Chiang had nothing to say at all, because now is the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
Seeing Chairman Mao's silence, Duke Zhou tentatively said: "Chairman, if you agree, I will select suitable political cadres. I estimate that it will cost at least 20,000 to improve the political commissar and instructor system in the entire expeditionary force."
There are many political cadres. Fortunately, there are many party members in the expeditionary force. With a little training, they can serve as company or platoon-level instructors. However, political commissars above the regiment must be appointed from Yan'an. Therefore, the underground transportation line from Yan'an to Myanmar
It must be established as soon as possible.”
Chairman Mao waved his hand and said thoughtfully: "Other cadres are easy to say, but the key is who will be Yue Weihan's political commissar?"